Cape Coral docks, built in our backyard

Four hundred miles of canals, one home base

Cape Coral is our home water. The business is based here, the barge works here, and most days start somewhere on the city's canal grid. When you call about a dock in the Cape, you are not explaining your neighborhood to an out-of-town crew.

The Cape's canals come in two flavors: freshwater systems and saltwater Gulf-access canals that run out through the Caloosahatchee toward open water. They age docks differently. Salt water feeds barnacles and borers that chew pilings at the waterline, while sun and storm season beat on every deck board in the city equally.

Nearly every canal home here sits behind a concrete seawall, which is exactly where we work: pilings driven from the water, the dock built off your seawall, your lawn and sprinklers left the way we found them.